Will his opponent. Had a piece of the berlin wall that everyone lost its. Remarks 30 years since the gray green ball. Of color in the fall. So im terry martin good to have you with us the corona virus has claimed the lives of more than 1000000 people. But experts caution that the true figure is probably much higher the grim milestone has been officially recorded by the Johns HopkinsUniversity Database it shows the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and fatalities have been rising through most of all just in september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in corona virus cases including here in europe experts say the crisis is far from over. Lets take a quick look at the countries with the most deaths from coated dying teen they all are the u. S. Brazil india mexico u. K. Italy france peru spain and iran. But if we look at the number of deaths per 100000 people it gives a better indication of the impact of the virus on the population as you can see the list here is slightly different it includes some of the same countries who got peru belgium bolivia spain ecuador chile the u. K. Brazil the us and italy. Well one of the most frightening features of the corona virus is that it can seemingly strike anywhere at any time no one feels safe teri schultz reports now from the belgian town of st truth and one familys heartbreaking loss. The world has lost a 1000000 lives. One of them meant the world to 10 year old lorenzo my grandpa was the best his grandpa luke picked him up from school each day and what he got and we made our own work and after that. We just played the couch and just did what we want to deal. Mostly i got snacks and anything but their hometown st trued and was hit early and hard by the corona virus we had 53 people. Who had to enter the hospital and we only had bets for 20 people but luke was already hospitalized failing fast he said if i dont make it in the police to group the children he didnt make it on march 23rd luke became seen truants 1st corona death janine and their daughters nellie and elaine and lorenzo didnt even get to see goodbye now that really hot. The truck was really all. Mayor very early hit and felt it personally her husband became critically ill but survived it was a terrible time for the families but also for us as a mayor and also all the people of my policemen and you know the people in the town who are working. 24 hours a day 6 months later same treatment has the infection rate under control with strict measures father room 10 and says now inhabitants need to heal its important that we share. With each other what we feel what we want our r. And d. But also or the. Mayor here and decided to create a space for that a corner of a city park is now a memorial the theme forget me not plenty of those flowers have been planted by city landscape or d. D. s summers along with a tree of life and a plaque bearing a poem in a park and that. The flowers will come so yeah even when its sat. It will be a little bit. Beautiful. For the memorials dedication september 13th lorenzo was asked to commemorate his beloved grandfather he told his mom nellie he was too afraid to look at life they were again to laugh at me. But lorenzo changed his mind and wrote a letter even. Your grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about the corona mad about what happened he ordered bastogne always are going to be the best for you to think. That i was brave and that i was happy did i get it that i for all would l. Out. Please happy. You. Know one here who forget. Joining us now is dr Marcus Harris spokesperson the World Health Organization in geneva thanks for being with us this morning dr harris a 1000000 people are known to have died from covered 19 already and the pandemic is far from over how much further do you expect the death toll to rise good morning terry we want the death toll to stop we want the transmission to stop we know that weve just at least a 1000000 people probably many many more because many deaths have not necessarily gone accorded correct and of my stance. But whats really important now is that we all know its so much more about the virus so much more about how to stop it what if theyre lacking that thats the saudi all of government response in every place to really do the things to turn it around but its not too late we could fight back talking about fighting it there are various therapies in development to at least prevent the infections from becoming lethal synthetic antibodies for example do you see anything promising in the pipeline that could become widely available soon. Yes in fact theres an enormous has been in the fantastic work that scientists have done are the sorts of fun diagnostics treatments and the back scenes and when it comes to the treatments we already have some treatments that can stop the severe effects when people get the severe form of the virus and doctors and nurses are becoming very good at recognizing when somebody is going into that stage and getting treatments like already go steroids but also the blood thinners that stop the clotting which can cause a lot of problems so definitely we have to medically and clinically how to fight this what we are saying now have to do is fight transmission you mentioned the importance of the International Community working together on this how difficult is it to coordinate the fight against this pandemic when countries are taking very different approaches ranging from hyper vigilance in the case of south korea to deny oil in brazil. Where its critical but every post on this planet understands that this is a threat to humanity this is not about politics this is not about one great begets another great these storms when we. Really do know what stuff that we know that individual as you do that watching the physical distance thing and what must play like when youre in close contact and a void crowds a void gatherings where you are together we know this stops it we know that governments can stop it by doing good tracking tracing testing but we dont have to do it all its not just about are saying the government has to do this or this person has to do this it has to be relevant doing all of its. Numerous vaccines are in development can you tell us when we can realistically expect to back seen that youre sure is affective and safe. Yes well very promising stage with quite a lot of that scene so good knowing that have gone into whats called a phase 3 trial where you tested on people get it right and then sickly into the wild into the community and you see if it really really protects you know about why theyre doing that youre also looking very very closely at safety so the important thing is to gather about information then look at 1st of all its a pretty safe and theres a efficacious and who does it work for and then once youve got that data you know. We can roll it out but were not really going to get that information until the end of this year beginning of next year and of course reading it out will still take a while but you know the signs are very good dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization in geneva thank you very much for the question. Well germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet this countrys National Leaders to discuss a fresh strategy for camp combating the pandemic merkel has warned that Current Trends could lead to a major spike in infection rates before the end of this year but just how ready is germany for a 2nd wave u. W. Visit one doctors surgery in the center of berlin thats hoping to get ahead of the curve. 12 meters long and growing. Thats the length of todays line at a medical practice in berlin. People have come here to get tested for corona through the window no appointment necessary. I think its a really nice option doesnt take so much time and its it may be safer than going to oak hospital and sitting in the close space where patients can be sick but here everything everyone is Wearing Masks and the just for the window so i think its really nice that the doctors ability cuts and runs the practice shes bracing herself for a harsh corona winter with many more patients to deal with. Any time you want my advice i dont want to be a prophet of doom and gloom but the numbers are clearly going up we all want to prevent another lockdown so we dont want to have to close the schools again somehow weve got to get through this winter. To prepare for whats coming germany wants to set up more testing stations they would receive people running at a High Temperature or with other corona symptoms additionally the Public Health office which tracks infected people was promised more personnel but that has yet to materialize. And the politicians have pledged to bolster the Health Authorities over the next 5 years this requires the creation of 5000 new jobs but now as october and november approach the jobs dont yet exist in the Health Offices this is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed. But instead of relying solely on Germanys Health care and tracking system dr cuts is done would rather make testing at home possible. You mustnt move to credit will have to be given the chance to do a test without a doctor to go to the pharmacy and buy a test although they do not guarantee 100 percent accuracy and they provide an excellent indicator and are absolutely adequate from an epidemiological point of view because. The swap test involves taking a sample between the nose and mouth it shows the results within 15 minutes without sending the sample to a laboratory in germany though only doctors and pharmacists are allowed to order them should infections start rising sharply in winter they might be an alternative to long lines in the cold. Lets bring in our political course here infection numbers are climbing again in germany today chancellor merkel is meeting regional leaders to hash out a fresh anti coronas strategy what can we expect. Well there have been some leaks about what is likely to be decided today and looks as though the restrictions will be tightened again what theyre talking about is that the number of people that are allowed to attend private parties for instance will be restricted to a 25 and public gatherings to 50 the background to this is that in recent months or in recent weeks the number of infections have risen is especially because of gathering such as the religious gatherings. Waiting parties birthday parties in other words things that are happening really outside public control in private in private circumstances but these kinds of gatherings ought to be restricted we have to say however that there is some dispute between the various regions the 16 federal states and germany amongst each other there is a push to have these rules imposed for the whole of germany but especially the rural federal states feel that in their cases where the number of covered cases are very low applying such strict measures would not be reasonable so there is some dispute going on about whether this will be for the whole of germany or not of course many people are concerned that there could be a real spike in infections and statistics suggest it is possible if that happens could there be another hard lockdown in germany. Well im going to makarova chancellor is one of the people who is concerned about those she said yesterday in a Party Meeting of her Christian Democratic Union that if nothing was done now and the exponential growth of infections continues the way it has been recent weeks then by christmas we would have 19000. 00 infections per day thats obviously a very bad worst Case Scenario and also a locked on a total lockdown would be. A measure of last resort that is something that the government will try to avoid at all costs but what is possible are regional locked on possibly even in sections of certain cities such as here in berlin the region where you and i are at the moment terri has a number of infections that is giving rise to concern so they are possible lockdowns i think in sections of the city or in certain regions that its not beyond. Beyond point not not impossible well the Economic Impact of a lockdown of course would be enormous germanys government has been spending a lot already to keep businesses afloat in this pandemic is the government prepared to provide more Financial Assistance if the pandemic worsens while the government is actually in fact at the moment passing the new budget for the coming year and that provides a whole lot of billions in fact for fighting the effects of the pandemic direct assistance to companies is still possible about the major assistance to companies at the moment is that if people have to go on shore to working all those companies are being paid all the people are being paid by the state rather than being put out into unemployment that is going to continue through the end of next year at the same time the number of investments that the government plans in order to counter the effects of the corona epidemic goes into the billions funds thank you so much that was d w Political Correspondent hans pont. Take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today dozens of reportedly been killed or wounded in a 2nd day of fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of the gun a car about the fighting broke out in an area that lies within us about john but has been controlled by Ethnic Armenians since 1904. Protesters clashed with police in mexico city as hundreds of women marched through the capital demanding to decriminalization of abortion ranks of female Police Officers used pepper spray against the demonstrators abortion is banned in most of mexico except under certain circumstances such as sexual assault. A piece of the berlin wall that everyone loves the east side gallery march 30 years since it turned the great wall into a riot of color and fun. Well have that story for you in just a moment but 1st u. S. President and his opponent joe biden are preparing for their 1st Television Debate due to take place later on tuesday the question in everyones minds is how trump will deal with the investigation into his tax records by the New York Times and ball it suggests that the selfproclaimed billionaire and business genius may actually face a financial nightmare of overdue loans bad deals and unpaid taxes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars trying to not the assertions. Reactions to the New York Times reflected the deep divisions that are evident in across america in this Election Year makes my blood boil and everything he does makes my blood boil and whats going to make my blood boil even more is that there are no consequences to this why now. It right now they bring this up like 35 days through election day you know me i think it will affect the election probably not because theres been way worse accusations against him before and people havent cared the story adds to the troubles of a president trailing badly in opinion polls the newspaper reported that tax filings show donald trump paid just 750. 00 in federal income taxes in 2016 the year he won the presidency and the same amount in 2017 his 1st year in office and he paid no income taxes whatsoever in 10 of the previous 15 years. Thats because he reported losing more money than he made according to the times he also reported to be personally responsible for loans and other debts totaling more than 420000000. 00 revelations that undermine the image trump likes to promote of himself as a successful businessman and deal maker trump dismissed the story as untrue the story was told was fake news fake. On tuesday evening trump and his challenger joe biden face off for the 1st of 3 televised debates trumps tax history gives the democrats fresh ammunition going into the final month of the campaign. Earlier we spoke to richard painter a law professor and former white house ethics lawyer under president george w. Bush we asked him if Donald Trumps alleged debt totaling more than 400000000. 00 could be a threat to National Security as the democrats have claimed substantial debt that magnitude is a very very worrisome situation and youre absolutely right it is security clearance would ordinarily get at night some of with that kind of gap unless they have assets well an excess of the debt and the this is a situation where the president the United States the president decides who gets a security clearance is not himself someone who caught up like a security clearance because of this that we also dont know who with really good somebody acts are identified but the question as to whether those banks are loaning the money and taking the responsibility for the loan oh or whether the risk really is someone else a guaranteed the loss if the party that guarantees a lot of this but thought you know what it is a hostile foreign power whether it be russia or another country we simply dont know thats very dangerous for the United States to have our president in debt to either foreign governments or all of our so closely allied with barca and the real problem here is we dont know because theres no disclosure about whats going on right now to these tax returns and the article in the New York Times but 1st time but now we would have to chase this down and talk to for example Deutsche Bank and all the other backs but who really they are the risks associated with the looms is that the bank is it charters at russia or saudi arabia we have no idea and thats very very scary for people and id expect. 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